ofthewedge

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Juncker

  • My high charms work And these mine enemies are all knit up In their distractions

    This is not supposed to be a blog about the EU, and I’m not one to say told you so but…. During the week that was the Brussels commentariat is coming alive to the self-aggrandising chicanery which these pages foresaw a couple of months back. First, there was the leaked memo spelling out in Teutonic detail how Read more

  • The Juncker Class

    I told him I had been that morning at a meeting of the people called Quakers, where I had heard a woman preach. Johnson: “Sir, a woman’s preaching is like a dog’s walking on his hind legs. It is not done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all.” Boswell, Life of Read more